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Tuesday, November 3, 2009

Christmas Card and Gift Tag Giveaway!!!


Would you like to win a set of my Nostalgic Deer Christmas Cards and Gift Cards??

You would......great!

All you have to do is leave me a comment telling me about your favourite Christmas memory.

I'll go first....I must have been around 4 cos we were still living in Canberra and I remember being at our neighbours house on Christmas Eve. When we got home later that night, presents had magically appeared under the tree and it was at that moment that I truly believed in Santa!

That Christmas I got a really cool doll that could either be Goldilocks or Red Riding Hood. You put little plastic record type things in her back and she told you the story. She was fantastic!

The winner will be drawn at random on Monday the 9th of November no following, facebooking, tweeting or telegramming necessary.
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32 comments:

  1. My favourite Christmas memory was when I was 18 and I spent Christmas in Finland. I met the REAL Santa north of the Arctic circle. It was a magical- if somewhat commercial- experience.
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  2. my favourite christmas memory was when i was 5 or 6. Santa Claus bought me two sets of walkie talkies. One set at my house and one at Grandmas. I couldn't believe Santa could make such a silly mistake and thought it was so funny! :) x
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  3. So many - I love Christmas but I would have to say my first Christmas as a mama which was our last Christmas with DH's Pa (RIP). I will always remember it fondly as our Christmas' are not the same without him.
    Bambi
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  4. Oh my favourite Christmas memory was when I was about 6 years old and waking up on Christmas morning and my sister finding hoof tracks out in the driveway. We lived on a farm so they were impressions in the mud. Mum swears to this day that she didn't do it, and I do believe her as it was most likely that they had been there for a while from moving goats around and no one had ever noticed before until coincidentally Christmas Day. However I did believe it was Santa's Reindeer for a long time and it really made me believe in Santa, Reindeer and Christmas.

    busybbee05(at)yahoo.com.au
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  5. Oh they are lovely!!
    My favorite Christmas memory was the one just gone. It was my sons first Christmas. My mum stopped putting pressents under the tree Christmas eve night years and years ago. It was so much fun waiting until my boy was asleep then 'sneaking' out and putting the pressents under. The next morning he had no idea what to do, granted he was 8 months old lol. Yeah deffenetly the best. I now know what its like to be Santa Clause.
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  6. Hey Sam - great giveaway!
    My favourite Christmas memory is waiting until mum and dad had gone to bed and sneaking into the lounge to see the Christmas lights glowing and a new bike under there for me. It looked so shiny and magical under the lights.

    We would turn off the lights on the tree every night but on Christmas eve they stayed on all night..and its a tradition I still continue to this day - it just seems to make everything so sparkly and exciting!
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  7. Great giveaway Sam ... this deer is gorgeous. I guess the best christmas was as a kid ... being an army kid it was usually the only time all our family made a real effort to get together. One year when I was about 10 it was the greatest ... with all 15 aunts and uncles, grandparents, parents, siblings and 20+ cousins not to mention 2nd cousins and extended fam it was the best party I have ever been to. It lasted about 18 hours before people started to go home and included a swim in the Brisbane river ... yikes wouldn't do it these days
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  8. Hi Sam! My favourite Xmas memory is when I was about 7 and a door was opened for my brother and I that had been locked for some time. Behind the door was a beautiful new playroom. The lights were off (it was in a basement area) and all you could see were the lights from an electric train moving around and the lights from a hand-built Barbie doll house! Yes, it had working lights!!! The room had new hand-built shelves and chalkboards. It was an amazing space and gift that my parents had created! It is one of my favourite memories ever!!!!
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  9. My favourite Christmas memory is a funny one. When in Britain we never had Christmas stockings. We moved to Canada and the kids were young and all their friends had Christmas stockings that they put at the end of their beds on Christmas eve. So we finally gave in and did that for the kids.

    They went to bed, and when they were fast asleep we went and filled their stockings with gifts. Totally forgot they may get up to go to the bathroom through the night, which one of them did. They saw the stocking, woke the other one up, and then us, and that was it, they wouldn't go back to bed. The time 3:30am.

    We were pooped for the rest of the day, and swore never again. Now if we do a Christmas stocking it's put under the tree full of stuff......and the kids are told NOT to look in it.........by the way the kids now are 24 and 25.....LOL
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  10. Having the whole extended family on my Dad's side, at my grandparents, and my grandad putting a record on the wind-up gramophone and everyone dancing and laughing and having a great time. Christmas's aren't the same without my grandad now though. But the memories are still there :)
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  11. On Christmas eve we would celebrate with a family meal , I am one of 13 children so there was always a crowd and lots of noise, but we would all have our own mini rolled roast of lamb, I remember how much we looked forward to this each year. Gemma
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  12. Beautiful cards :) My favourite memory is waking up with my sister (we would have been about 7 & 5 years old) and coming out to the christmas tree to find no presents... Mum & Dad told us to look outside - and there in the yard was a brand new trampoline with everyone's presents on it! I still remember the excitement!
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  13. Xi, my favourite and bestest ever Christmas present and memory is having our DD placed in our arms on Christmas day, almost 4 years ago.

    Gorgeous tags and cards, you are so talented
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  14. I love these cards Sam, you are so clever :)

    My favourite memory was using a real (living) tree as our christmas tree (it was in a pot outside). We decorated it on Christmas Eve. The next morning there were wallabies and joeys under the tree munching on the grass and nibbling the leaves. I believe they were Santa's little helpers.
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  15. Wow your cards and gift tags are fantastic!!!

    One of my favourite Christmas memory... we were on holidays for Christmas when I was about 5 and I left a letter out for Santa telling him where we were. I also asked him that 'if he were real could he move my letter to prove it'. When we got back from holidays my letter had been moved and Santa was definitely real!
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  16. Your illustrations are fabulous!Well done Sam!
    humm Best christmas memory for me have snow around...not anymore!My best Christmas was in the Alps back in France where we stayed in a chalet and woke up to the quiet and magical atmosphere of white covered mountains...shhhh;)
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  17. My favourite christmas memory is last year with the kids, they are starting to understand the spirit of Christmas and everything is just so magical!
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  18. I've loved reading these stories! It's made me very excited about Christmas. My fave memory was from a few years ago - it was very low key, just my immediate family, prawns, ham, salads, champagne on the back deck, followed by an afternoon nap. Lovely.
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  19. wow Sam! How cute are they?! Count me in!!
    I love Christmas so much - love being with my family ... hard to pick my favourite. I guess it would be when I was about 6, we had Chritmas Day at home with just my immediate family and grandma and grandad - it was very low key, and very hot, and very happy. My mum got an big brown toilet bag that I thought was so lovely!
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  20. Girl, you are so very clever... they are so special and so cute! My Favorite Christmas, was the Xmas before last. It was the first time my immediate lil family had its own special christmas together. It was the first time I cooked a pudding and pavalova & luckily they worked. It was a very stress free and relaxed day, just beautiful. x
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  21. Wow these are just beautiful you are such a clever thing! I LOVE Christmas too many memories but I guess a firm fav had to be getting my first bike, I must have been about 5 and to see this large wrapped bike shapped pressie under the tree was just so exciting. I even remember being excited about having a pink stack hat!

    Thanks for a great giveaway

    Bel x
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  22. Do I even have a favorite Christmas memory? I am not sure. Thinking about it for a while now, I would say I especially loved the Christmas when I was 7 or 8 years old. As a child, I wasn't allowed into the living room where the Christmas tree was standing. My mom had decorated it overnight. In the evening of December 24, she rang a little bell, telling me that the Christ Child had come. Then I was allowed to go into the living room, seeing the beautiful tree for the first time. That was such a special moment -- like magic!

    Thanks for inviting to go down memory lane and another big thanks for the chance to win such wonderful Christmas cards. :)

    Greetings from Munich,
    Birgit
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  23. I was in the 2nd grade and questioning whether Santa was real...for Christmas I got the big Barbie RV all but together all stickers in tact, just ready to play. I was CERTAIN Santa was real after this because I knew my parents couldn't afford this dream gift for me!! Thanks for a chance, and for stirring up old memories!
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  24. hmmm, favourite memory would be having a sleepover with my cousins on Christmas Eve. We stayed awake most of the night laughing and giggling! So much fun!
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  25. I must of been 4, We were staying at my Nanna and Poppa's, we had been to a christmas eve party at the town hall, when we got home my brother and I were told to go to sleep so santa could come, next thing I heard a bell ring, obviously one of the bells on the raindeer, I remember shutting my eyes sooo tight willing myself to go to sleep so that santa could leave me my present...... such an innocent time.
    I love your work! Thanks for the giveaway!
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  26. Oh, I have a few, I love Christmas. But my best would be my first European Christmas, when I was 17 and an exchange student in Germany (yeah- my best Christmas memory is my first Christmas without my family- hmm). So the lead up was the amazing Christmas markets, ice skating, drinking spiced red wine and hot apple juice, then there were 3 Christmas days. Oh, I could go on adn on but that's hogging. It was lovely how they did presents and also I fainted when preparing the food (pickled herring salad!)
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  27. A lovely giveaway Sam!
    I always remember and miss Christmases with my Dad, but one of my very favourites was Christmas Eve in hospital with And and me and our newborn first babe Alex, looking out at the lights over the city.
    -and mum bringing us scrummy Christmas Eve food to share together there :)
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  28. i was just telling my girls this memory... i like to think it was while my mother was still alive (that makes me around 3 and a half).my dad used to get THE biggest real christmas pine tree which we would decorate with those gorgeous lights we now refer to as vintage. and then cover it in glass baubles and fancy glass birds on claspsy thingys. when the tree was complete we would all (5 children) lie under it and look up. i still have that memory as vivid as if it were now and if i try hard enough i can smell the pine needles!
    thanks for allowing me to write this down, perhaps i should blog about it too.

    %*_*% rosey
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  29. I thought I'd already commented, but I must have done something wrong.

    My favourite Christmas memory is more a tradition now. A couple of days before Christmas, my dad and I get in the car and drive and drive until we get to a particular dry creek bed. Then we get as far off the highway as we can and proceed to bushwhack through waist-high grass, scaring all the local wallabies in the process. We slide down the sandbank and pick the perfect little casuarina sprout as our Christmas tree for the year. Dad is not allowed to do this, as he has a knack for picking one that is flat on one side, too spindly, or full of spiders. Or so mum says. Then he cuts it down and we lug it up the sandbank, into the car and home we go. Then it is my job to decorate it and remove all the green ants. All of this is done in the summer heat of north Queensland so I moan and whinge, but really I love it. It's a great bonding experience - me and my dad. By the way, I'm sure you're not allowed to clamber down dry creek beds and steal casuarina sprouts, even at Christmas, so tell no one ;)
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  30. Oh I have only just seen these Sam & they are truely beautiful!!Yikes a christmas memory... thankfully they are all good, but mine would be one of the last times with my grandparents in SA before they passed away. I know its a simple one, but christmas was always such a joyous affair when we were there . Oh & chritmas was never christmas at their house without bowls of Kool mints & kool chocs (not sure if you can still get them?) everywhere!
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  31. My Favourite Christmas memory was definitely last year, spending it with my two gorgeous Irish Setter Puppies for the first time: we had got them lots of squeaking presents, and wrapped them all up .... when the puppies woke up on Christmas morning they went running over to the tree and started ripping open all their pressies with the excitement and intent of a five year old kid.... it was so adorable!

    Merry Christmas Everyone!

    Bec

    artemisies@gmail.com
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